Esposno— Oh the Earliest Latin Life of St. Brigicl of Kildare. 325 



scholars at home and abroad whose sympathetic assistance has been so liberally 

 extended to me. Messrs. Lyster, Best, and Magee of the National Library, 

 Dublin ;' Mr. 0. J. Sutton, formerly my colleague on the Staff of the 

 John Eylands Library at Manchester; Mr. De Burgh of Trinity College, 

 and the officials of the Eoyal Irish Academy, have spared no pains to assist 

 me to the best of their abilities. M. Henri Omont of Paris, Dr. von Kauffungen 

 of Metz, F. Madan of Oxford, E. W. Flower of London, and the late 

 Canon Maddison of Lincoln, have veiy kindly supplied me with information 

 r elative to Mss. preserved in these towns. 



ADDENDUM, 



To the list of forty-eight mss. given above (pp. 308-19) I am now (July, 

 1912) able to add eight more, thus bringing the total up to fifty-six. 



Angers, Bibliotheque de la Ville. 



This Libiary possesses two MSS. of the Vita S. Brigidae. 



(1.) MS. No. 123. Membr. saec. xiii, from the Benedictine monastery of 

 Saint-Aubin at Angers.- A Lectionarium containing a few extracts from 

 Cogitosus.' 



(2.) MS. No. 807. Membr. saec. xii, fols. 6b-15a. A volume of Vitae 

 Sanctorum. Provenance unknown.^ 



Berlin, Konigliche Bibliothek. 



There are at least two mss. of the Vita at Berlin. 



(1.) MS. lat. No, 123 (formerly Phillipps^ No. 1839). Membr. saec. xiii, 

 fols. 86 a-91 a. A volume of Vitae Sanctorum from the Benedictine monastery 

 of St. Vincentius near Metz.° This copy omits the prologue, and the closing 

 phrase reads, Orate fro me et ne imjmtetis culpahili,'' etc. 



(2.) MS. lat. No. 791. Membr. saec. x, fols. 73 a-85 a. A volume of 

 Vitae Sanctorum copied by a scribe named Walthard.* It was formerly 



' I should like to dia\v especial attention to the enlightened manner in which the heads of this 

 Library do everything in their power to assist all those engaged in scholarly research. Had it not 

 been for the sympathy shown me by these gentlemen, much of my mediaeval work would have been 

 given up through sheer discouragement experienced elsewhere. 



- Cf. Delisle, Le Cabinet des mss. etc., t. ii, 1874, pp. 485-487. 



^ Molinier, Catalogue general des Manuscrits des Bibliotheqiies Publiques de France, Departe- 

 ments, t. 31, 1S9S, p. 224. 



* Molinier, loc. cit. , p. 453. 



5 Cf. on the history of the Phillipps mss. now at Berlin Jacobs, Zentralblatt fiir Bibliothekswesen, 

 28, 1911, pp. 23-39. 



' Cf. Dom Pitra, Spicilegium Solesmense, t. ii, 1855, p. xxxv. 



'Val. Rose, Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der K. Bibliothek zu Berlin, Bd. 12, 1893, 

 p. 263. 



8 Hose, loc. cit., Bd. 13, Abt. 2, 1903, p. 839. 



